The problem
Governors arrive at meetings with national headlines in one place, the headteacher's data in another and their own audits nowhere. Every governor has read a different set of papers.
What I built
A builder that turns live external data and the school's own records into one termly paper. The board chooses the sections: school profile, governing body, pupil numbers and capacity, Ofsted, Companies House for academies, financial insights, workforce, attendance, behaviour, results, Pupil Premium, SEND, inspection data, curriculum, improvement plan progress, audit themes and the headteacher's narratives. It closes with suggested priorities and recommendations, and a methodology and sources section.
The internal half comes from the submitted Headteacher Report and the Audit Hub; the external half from the national sources.
Design decisions
Preparing a report does not save one. The preview shows which sources are complete for that school and term, and where one is missing, the person preparing the report must confirm they have reviewed the gap before saving. A saved report is a dated version that later data cannot alter. Where a school has no current inspection or filing, the section says it is not available rather than filling the space with guesswork.
What you can see
Reviewed, dated board papers in Word and PDF, kept in a history so the board can compare terms. Trust administrators can prepare reviewed reports for several schools in one batch.
The result
Every governor reads the same evidence and the same suggested questions before the meeting, and the paper says exactly what the evidence supports.